Reverse side of a Cycladic frying pan, c.28th-23 centuries BCE. The Cycladic culture was a pre-Hellenic culture, which existed on several Aegean Islands during the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age. Little is known about them, except for their distinctive art style. [2672×4008]August 25, 2024
Water dropper in the form of a peach. Korea, Joseon dynasty, second half 18th c. Glazed porcelain with cobalt blue and copper red decoration. Brooklyn Museum collection [3000×4000] [OC]August 25, 2024
Folding Quran lectern carved from a single piece of jade, with inlaid rubies. India, around 1700 [3400×3540]August 25, 2024
Carved walls and doorway at Banteay Srei temple. Cambodia, Khmer Empire, 967 AD [5000×3340]August 25, 2024
Glass vessel in the shape of a boat [askos]; part of the Begram Hoard. Begram, Afghanistan, 1st c. CE. Guimet museum, nr. MG 21840 [1430 x 2048]August 25, 2024
Two earthenware figures of drum-musicians on horseback. NE China, Tang dynasty [618 – 907 CE]. Housed in the Liaoning Museum [2730 x 2048]August 25, 2024
An ancient silver drachm from Istros in Moesia, depicting two facing male heads side by side on the obverse, and an eagle grasping dolphin with talons on the reverse. Circa 380-340 BCE [995×2058]August 25, 2024
An archaic silver stater from Knossos on Crete that depicts the Minotaur on its obverse and a swastika-like labyrinth on its reverse. Circa 425-360 BCE [447×899]August 25, 2024
An ancient silver tetradrachm of the Thracian king Bastareus, showing a crested helmet on the obverse and a bull on the reverse. Circa 400 BCE [794×1552]August 25, 2024
Solidus of the last Western Roman emperor Romulus Augustus, minted around the year when Rome fell. Circa 475-476 CE [732×1447]August 25, 2024
The Roman amphitheatre in Syracuse (eastern Sicily) was the largest of its kind on the island. It was probably built at the end of the 1st-century BCE and was associated with the reconstruction of Syracuse in 21 BCE. [1200×900]August 25, 2024
